Summary

• EBS volumes:

  • Network drives attached to one EC2 instance at a time

  • Mapped to an Availability Zones

  • Can use EBS Snapshots for backups / transferring EBS volumes across AZ

• AMI: create ready-to-use EC2 instances with our customizations

• EC2 Image Builder: automatically build, test and distribute AMIs

• EC2 Instance Store:

  • High performance hardware disk attached to our EC2 instance

  • Lost if our instance is stopped / terminated

• EFS: network file system, can be attached to 100s of instances in a region

• EFS-IA: cost-optimized storage class for infrequent accessed files

• FSx for Windows: Network File System for Windows servers

• FSx for Lustre: High Performance Computing Linux file system

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